Amazon boss wants to ship “several tons” of cargo to the Moon
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Just don't expect to use Prime if you want it in 24 hours

Amazon's Jeff Bezos’s pet aerospace exploration project is planning to send “several metric tons” of unspecified cargo to the Moon in the next five years.

Apple and  Amazon deny Chinese hardware attack
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Trust us it never happened

Apple and Amazon.com have denied a Bloomberg Businessweek report claiming their systems had been infiltrated by malicious computer chips inserted by Chinese spooks.

Why Amazon is an unreliable supplier
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Monday, 01 October 2018 11:37

Why Amazon is an unreliable supplier


Prime is unsuitable for emergencies

If your number one computer goes down, you would be insane to hope that Amazon can get you a new one in 24 hours as it claims.

Iridium teams up with Amazon to bring clouds to the world
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The future is cloudy

Iridium Communications is partnering with Amazon Web Services to develop a satellite-based network called CloudConnect for Internet of Things (IoT) applications.

Amazon competes at the high end, on the high street
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The world's turned upside down

Not content with upsetting the retail applecart and contributing to the downfall of several well known outlets, Amazon has decided to go one step further and open trendy shops made of real brick and real mortar.

US IT giants spend fortunes stamping out competition
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Capitalism in action

US tech giants are spending fortunes keeping rivals away from their monopolies, according to a new report from Bloomberg.

Amazon plans to release eight IoT devices
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Tuesday, 18 September 2018 10:27

Amazon plans to release eight IoT devices


Alexa powered

Online bookseller Amazon is planning to release at least eight  new voice controlled hardware devices before the end of the year.

Amazon haunted by caged employee patent
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Friday, 14 September 2018 12:06

Amazon haunted by caged employee patent


Old patent

A patent filed in 2016 in which human workers are put into cages while robots scuttle around has returned to haunt Amazon just as it's under major pressure over the way it treats people who work in its warehouses.

France and Germany working out how to tax big tech
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France suggests a sunset clause

The European Union is working out a way to tax big tech and thinks that an agreement could still be found by the end of the year.

Amazon abandons the Oracle
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Thursday, 02 August 2018 11:50

Amazon abandons the Oracle


Herculean task

Online bookseller Amazon has had enough of Oracle’s database ways and says it will be off the software by 2020.